Learn the history of Dominican rum production.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.